Family Activities
A to Z Teacher Stuff. Family activities for all grades such as family tree projects, family award contests, family songs and poems, etc. http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/Themes/Family
Bird Observation. This is a great site for bird lovers. It includes observation and data gathering projects that will provoke a lot of scientific inquiry.
www.birds.cornell.edu/programs/AllAboutBirds/Birding123/ReportObservations.html
Biology Experiments. Includes Interesting experiments to conduct around the house for students and their families. http://askabiologist.asu.edu/pages/experiments.html
Kodak. Photo tips and project center for the family. http://www.kodak.com/eknec/PageQuerier.jhtml?pq-path=11808&pq-locale=en_US&_requestid=328
EcoKids. Environmental education site for kids, teachers, and families. This site is great for teaching kids about making good environmental choices. It includes a lot of eco-games, interactive activities and projects. http://www.ecokids.ca/pub/index.cfm
Figure This. A great website full of math challenges for the entire family. http://www.figurethis.org
FunBrain. This website is extremely useful for parents and teachers to use with young kids from grade 3-6. It includes games in every subject to compliment the classroom at home!
http://www.funbrain.com/parents/index.html
Learning Science Together. Put together by the Us Department of Education, this site has great index full of ideas for family-learning at home! http://www.ed.gov/pubs/parents/Science/index.html
Weather Station. Great website for amateur meteorologists! This site lets kids keep journals and use homemade barometers to predict the weather.http://www.sln.fi.edu/weather/todo/todo.html
NASA Science files. This website, created by the NASA Langley Research center, is a great way to enhance and enrich the teaching of science for grades 3-5. http://scifiles.larc.nasa.gov/parents/index.html
Reeko´s Mad Scientist Lab. A great source for free science activities and projects for parents and children of all ages. A lot of activities use common household items and are tons of fun for the entire family.
http://www.spartechsoftware.com/reeko/
Yucky. The luckiest site on the web! This site is a great place for kids to experiment with all the yucky things they can find. It is really entertaining as well as educational. http://yucky.discovery.com/flash/